ARD and ZDF: Why the summer break for TV talks often starts later this year

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Why the summer break for TV talks often starts later this year

Stand: 31.05.2022 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Anne Will broadcasts until the end of July, with a break until mid-September

Source: pa/dpa/NDR/Wolfgang Borrs/ARD The first

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The big talk shows of the two public broadcasters are going into the summer break later this year than last. The ARD emphasizes that in its three completely “talkless” weeks it is possible to react acutely.

DThe summer breaks of the big talk shows on ARD and ZDF will usually start later in 2022 than in previous years. As the first of the weekly talk shows, the Monday talk show “Hart aber fair” with Frank Plasberg will be taking a break after the June 20 edition (return August 15). The program “Maischberger”, which has recently been broadcast twice a week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays), says goodbye to the screen on July 6th and is scheduled to return on August 30th, according to the program director of the first in Munich. The ARD Sunday talk “Anne Will” will also be available in July this time (July 3, 17 and 24), after pausing in 2021 from June 6 to the end of August. The return is then only planned for September 18th.

On ZDF, the one-month summer breaks for “Maybrit Illner” (Thursdays) and “Markus Lanz” (Tuesdays to Thursdays) begin again in mid-July this year, after presenter Lanz stayed on the air until the beginning of August last year. Lanz’s last issue before the break on July 14 is part of a special theme on the first anniversary of the great flood. Illner’s Talk, which has been around since 1999 and was called “Berlin Mitte” until 2007, is pausing for five Thursdays, including July 14.

One reason for the later summer break of the talk shows: this year there will be no major sporting event like last year’s European Football Championship and the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Due to the extremely high summer temperatures in Qatar, the World Cup will not take place until November/December.

The ARD emphasized that in its three completely “talkless” weeks – i.e. especially in the first half of August – an acute reaction could be made: “In the three weeks in which no talk programs are planned, there is always the possibility for urgent reasons to go into the program with one of the current formats.”

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